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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
Tennessee Williams
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Tennessee Williams
Age: 70 †
Born: 1914
Born: March 26
Died: 1985
Died: February 25
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Columbus
Mississippi
Thomas Lanier Williams III
Thomas Lanier Williams
Thomas Williams
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It's hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don't want to write.
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All pretty girls are a trap, a pretty trap, and men expect them to be.
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And then the searchlight which had been turned on the world was turned off again and never for one moment since has there been any light that's stronger than this-kitchen-candle.
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We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast. It's like nothing else. It's like a love affair, it goes on and on, and doesn't end in marriage. It's all courtship.
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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.
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The work of a writer, his continuing work, depends for breath of life on a certain privacy of heart.
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I don't ask for your pity, but just your understanding - no, not even that -no. Just for your recognition of me in you, and the enemy, time, in us all.
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Walls are built up between people a hell of a damn sight faster than--broken down.
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Only animals have to satisfy instincts! Surely your aims are somewhat higher than theirs! Than monkeys! Pigs!
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My '60s plays were as good as most of the other plays I've written ... except I wasn't in a condition to refine them, to help in the rehearsal, or do anything. I was hardly conscious of what was going on except during the hours of the day when I was actually writing ... and that was with the aid of speed.
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Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
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I think time is a merciless thing. I think life is a process of burning oneself out and time is the fire that burns you.
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We're left alone with each other. We have to creep close to each other and give gentle little nudges with our paws and our muzzles before we can slip into sleep and rest for the next day's playtime.
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Don't you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.
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The human animal is a beast that dies but the fact that he’s dying don’t give him pity for others.
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-You're simple, straightforward and honest, a little bit on the primitive side, I should think. To interest you a woman would have to... -To lay her cards out on the table.
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